#Am I missing something???

[yaxinqs]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN??? IM RIGHT HERE???

[applestorms]

i was gonna write a more extensive post about this, but. fuck that i have too many points to write proper sentences rn, here's a bullet point list of my review of sonic 3. spoilers, obviously. tl;dr: i'm a hater

maria is fridged to hell and back, she is such a nothing character i have secondhand embarrassment for the writers every time she shows up. maria exists only to smile in flashbacks and lie in the flowers and go, "noooooooooooooooo, shadow :(( you can totally be whatever you want, dude," and then die on the floor. we don't even get to see her getting shot. fucking rip off.

to clarify-- maria absolutely does NOT have to be a fucking dead wife trope incarnate, imo. she can very easily be used that way, yes, but i think doing so also misses the core of her character and what she means for shadow. part of the appeal of the conversations that maria & shadow have on the arc in SA2 comes from the fact that they are characters coming from a very similar position, both being incredibly alienated from the rest of the world/humanity, daydreaming about it more than they are able to interact with it directly. like, come ON, they literally live on a fucking space station, the symbolism does not get that much more obvious?? it is the fact that maria CHOOSES to love humanity anyways, despite being unable to interact with it/live within it, that makes her words meaningful. jesus fucking christ.

anyways, speaking of. shadow has NO arc in this movie (literally and figuratively. did you seriously put the spaceship in Ohio) and it drives me up the wall. perhaps i'm just out of the loop on the Current Shit, but it feels like Nobody knows how to write that guy nowadays :((

not that i could fucking tell anyways in this particular movie from how little he shows up or SPEAKS. LET HIM SPEAAAAAK. i swear to GOD, he interacts w/ the main cast like three (3) fucking times in this entire movie and two of those interactions are fights. if you want those cute, quirky, somewhat cringe sonic/shadow interactions, you're better off watching the trailer plus whatever clips of the final fight inevitably end up on youtube, since that's basically their only real conversations in the entire movie.

the ending falls incredibly flat because of this. in the last movie, we at least had some decent character interactions between sonic & knux which made their fight and eventual team up at the end that much more satisfying. there was something to dig your teeth into, a back-and-forth that was entertaining (by sonic movie standards) but also established who they were, not only why they didn't like each other but how they could eventually bond. you had reason to care about knux, and reason to root for them to fight together!!

instead, here we got a whole lotta nothing. sonic and shadow fight, and it's cool, and it does all the Sick References and wowie yay clapping my hands live & learn blue/red lights cool. epic. yet i'm still left sitting here like WHO IS THIS BITCH??? WHO IS HE?????

fundamentally, the problem with this movie is that it Does Not Know what it's primary storyline is, or even who the main character is, and it falls flat on its fucking face because of it. there is no focus. sonic maybe barely kind of squeezes out an arc about teamwork and believing in your friends (a repetition of the last movie, i would argue, but whatever). eggman gets a much more hefty plotline about coming to terms with family, which i would be able to appreciate a whole lot more if it didn't feel like the only meaningful story arc in the entire fucking movie. robotnik bullshittery should be the B plot guys, come the fuck on. and shadow, of fucking course, gets NOTHING. he stands around looking grumpy and cool (and very cute, the animators did alright, i'll give them that), and emotes jack fucking shit. i know he's not a certified yapper like some people, but come the fuck on, he can still like. say words. right. RIGHT

is this review even comprehensible even more? i don't care, this is driving me insane. are you guys seeing this shit. are you.

this isn't even just me being a shipper and going wahh wahh no sonadow moments. you put those bitches on the poster why are they not talkinggg. even just an argument would be Great. it was like the one thing sonic prime figured out, why is it so empty here.

this also leads to the fundamental issue where i have NO fucking idea why either of them are so chill with each other by the ending. not only do i not know why shadow is so chill with sonic, considering he was just dead set on ending the fucking world to get revenge and one conversation is not enuf to convince me that he would get over it (even the lowkey suicidal tendencies fall somewhat flat for me since AGAIN. NOTHING), but i ALSO don't know why SONIC gives a shit about shadow!! or why he's so happy go lucky about all this!!! dawg he just killed the closest thing you have to a father. as much as i hate the humans in this series, even i have to sit for a minute and go uhh what? there is absolutely NOTHING to make their team up at the end of this emotionally meaningful other than the bland, surface level reaction of Yay Shadow And Sonic On Screen :) like the movie itself simply does not build up their rivalry in a meaningful enough way to make it feel worth it. one conversation can do a lot, but only if you have the build up to MAKE it mean a lot. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh

the ending being almost exactly the same as the beginning thus doesn't surprise me in the slightest cuz like. what else do you do. sonic Does Not have any reason to care about that bitch and neither does anyone else. his actual enemy eggman is presumably dead, so. who cares. a couple good fights then nice knowin' ya man o7 thanks for sacrificing yourself to save the world or whatever

the scene where shadow stalks the individual team members through the remains of their old military base/Ohio Arc stand in or whatever is cool, yes. one single hand clap for that. i like them making him ominous as fuck. but i just-- i need everybody to shut the fuck up for like two seconds so sonic and shadow can talk directly and have a proper fucking conversation before the literal end of the movie, like please just argue or SOMETHING. DO. SOMETHING. MEANING. LIKE A CHARACTER THING. WHO R U

also the eggman/stone shit drives me up the wall. another set of bitch ass writers too scared to make their characters canonically queer, so they bury their gays instead. idfc that they're inevitably going to revive him again, it's still stupid as shit. stone also does nothing in this movie so his internal "conflict" is dumb anyways aaaaskjdflksdjfl smacking my head on the keyboard

there comes a point in this movie where it really does feel like Everything is just about eggman and gerald. tails and knux stop being meaningful characters with personalities outside of quips by approximately the chao garden. sonic's weird human parents aren't even given a meaningful storyline outside of the one time that shadow punches him when they try to set up some miscommunication bullshit or whatever at the end. sonic and shadow fight but even that gets interrupted by... whatever the hell they were doing??? again, all of this would be way less aggravating if those scenes were able to fulfill their actual purpose: side bullshit funnie stuff to break up the serious scenes of the main plotline. unfortunately, this movie thinks a flashback to the traveling wilburys is sufficient to make its main character a complex, nuanced person. face in hands

seriously. why is that scene of eggman & gerald telling stone & shads to get back in the crab a microcosm of this entire film. orz

also also, before someone bitches at me for not paying close enough attention to [x] specific detail or whatever-- anything that you can easily miss on a first watch through should Not be integral to the plot of a movie. istg, i write scripts, i know how this shit works. if your audience can't figure out the emotional arc of a character after one watch, you have fundamentally failed your job as a writer. a flashback is not sufficient character writing, jfc.

and really, that's what it all comes down to, isn't it? the writing. it's always the Fucking writing with these movies. the animation here is, for the most part, fantastic, the voice acting is decent at worst, even the awkwardness of a half-human cast is somewhat smoothed over. yet the writing for these movies never fucking improves-- the jokes are still cringe at best, the references are blunt and unnatural, and the characters. have. no. arc.

perhaps it was somewhat inevitable that we end up at this point. this movie series has already been building up an entire universe of Other Bullshit, and it is here that we feel a lot of that crashing back down. the shelf could only stand up for so long.

i suppose in conclusion, my main takeaway from this movie is that it is an adaptation that fails. it does not understand who its characters are or what they want, it does not know why people connected to the characters it attempts to introduce on an emotional level, and it does not know how to make its own confusing lore work with all of the new details.

[originallymarysue]

I am quite new to the smg4 fandom and haven't watched most of the episodes so while waiting for the new episode I was catching up with older ones

AND PETER GRIFFEN JUST SHOWED UP???

HUH?????

[luswid]

guys, benny is not from chicago, what the fuck

[willowthewiisp]

How did ranni have a throne under the so called alliance of leyndell the demigods had when godwyn was dead and her body slain and she was in a doll.

Did ranni seriously show up in a doll body and nobody questioned it.

I know rykard likely knew the plan but how did she get away with obviously shedding her body through a clearly forbidden act that would have tied her directly to godwyn and sitting there in front of demigods that clearly loved godwyn in some capacity. I can understand morgott knowing ranni beforehand obviously but how does she have a throne for the alliance when she should have been in hiding after godwyns death. Like that was the big thing she killed herself and went into hiding because of the ramifications and only after you making a name for yourself in her name do people realize she's alive and the black knives go after her. Right????

[preppy-donkey]

I just binged miraculous ladybug s5 because I heard that the special is good and I used to love miraculous but I am so confused?

Like I know Gabriel dies in the special and Marinette tells Adrian, THEN WHY DOES SHE TELL HIM IN THE TV SHOW? WHY DOES GABRIEL DIE IN SEASON 5 AND THEN COME BACK AGAIN TO AKUMATIZE A PLASTIC MAN WHEN HE'S DEAD? WHY DO THE LEAKS OF THE SPECIAL HAVE HIM IN SOLIDARITY CONFINEMENT? WHY DOES LADYBUG GO TO THE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT???

Am I missing something here pls help I'm so confused???

Plus how do you keep getting the London special when it's not even out yet? 🤨

[on-dragons-wings]

/ one thing that i find so odd about this fandom is how we treat adam as this incompetent and pathetic meow meow bc like, guys hes one of the strongest characters we've seen on screen, and literally nothing that happens in the show points to him being incompetent, hes emotionally immature but he does what he does very efficiently in a very scary way. Ultimately everyone only didnt die bc Lucifer just might BE the strongest character in the show. If Lucifer didn't show up everyone would be dead where did this idea of Adam as not dangerous come from???

[mituna]

i have serious beef with the DA inquisition writers. WHY is zevran doing missions for the crows when his entire character arc in DA origins is LEAVING the crows???

[bluebellhairpin]

Daenerys Stormborn. More like mother of the dead. The unjust. Queen of ashes.

[ohthesuspenders]

an actual conversation I had at work today:

guy in the room next to me: hey I heard the yee-haw music you were playing yesterday

me: ???

guy: like the old-timey stuff or whatever you were listening to?

me: …you mean Louis Armstrong?

[nowshesdoingitallthetime]

Right not to bring up the whole Matty had his ass out during the show again but was he wearing fucking flippers?? Those you use to swim???? AND ONLY ON ONE FOOT????

[bearsbeetsbeskar]

all that fucking commotion and hype for the darksaber, only for moff gideon to crush it like a soda can.

[oiphity]

does berserk get any better. i've read like 200-something chapters and it's. a little ass after the eclipse ngl

[originallymarysue]

I am quite new to the smg4 fandom and haven't watched most of the episodes so while waiting for the new episode I was catching up with older ones

AND PETER GRIFFEN JUST SHOWED UP???

HUH?????

[here-there-everyfuckenwhere]

Why were the Ted Lasso cast doing promotional videos for apple during the strike though..?

[aintmyjewelry]

maybe im not built for this world but why do young girls go insane over stanley cups